Domestic Geek

I took a couple of hour nap this afternoon because I only got about five hours of sleep last night. I'm already dreaming of preflighting files! Now I'm beginning to understand the deep annoyance that prepress people have with designers. I realized that in almost two weeks of doing this, I've only had one file that had no problems. It's mostly lame stuff, like low resolution images, using registration black for text, RGB color spaces and low resolution transparency...all stuff that anybody that goes to design school is told to watch out for. I'm seriously annoyed by people that send incomplete files. Why bother sending a document where half the pages missing? *sigh* It's all part of the job, though. I'm not going to let myself get super annoyed with it. That's not my job, that's the prepress manager's. I can only do what I can, right? Now, if I could just be full time...

The nap put a crimp in the video plans. After running a couple of errands with Marcus, it was dark when we got home. Oh, well. There's always tomorrow.

OK, got Marcus' pilgrim image finally done. Still haven't worked on my site. I'm uninspired at the moment.

I'm gonna go finish watching the Broncos/Charger game.

I need to finish Marcus' graphics I promised him. I'm having a really hard time with this one and I don't know why. Grrr. I also need to work on a new layout for me and find a template for my weight-loss blog. I've had absolutely no luck finding the one I had seen that I really liked (was probably a custom, not-free one anyway).

I'm trying to decide if I should dump the Thursday Thirteen meme. Even finishing on Wednesday night isn't getting me a whole lot of visitors and I certainly don't have time now that I'm employed to surf around to other participant's sites. It was a real chore to get it done this week and it wasn't all that interesting. Maybe I'll try to do one once a month or so if I'm feeling really inspired. I have to think on this.

OK, I've got to head off to the store. Marcus wants french toast for breakfast and we have no bread.